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Word: mindedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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In other cities they wouldn't be called independents--these old-style incumbents riding their conservative friendship-building ways into office election after election. If Cambridge was a normal town the "independents" would be the liberal, reform-minded mavericks, and this group of all white, all male traditional politicians would...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: The Independent Incumbents | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

Moynihan's Eliza commands the action because of the connections she suggests; Andrew Agush claims the stage as Higgins precisely because he has forged no links. Agush's absent-minded professor moves entirely in a world of his own making. Fixed on the idea rather than the person who's...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: In Her Own Image | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

In a popular TV show of the '50s, The Millionaire, a vigilant philanthropist would single out deserving citizens and then stun them with a big check. Philanthropist Thomas Cannon, 53, is no multimillionaire, however. He is a black postal worker in Richmond earning $16,000 a year, who in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Setting a High Standard of Giving | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

Regulation. Carter did not erect the network of transportation, labor, safety and environmental regulations that many businessmen feel is strangling them, and his criticisms of the abuses of Big Government during the primary campaign led some to believe that he would make the regulations less onerous. Now they can see...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Carter: a Problem of Confidence | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

The educators who operate the private and state-funded Thomson Education Center set a wide range of high-minded goals for the students who participate in the program, ranging from the development of scientific skills to cultural awareness. Fundamentally, the two-and-a half-year-old program attempts to help...

Author: By Jonathan D. Ratner, | Title: Hanging Tight on Thomson's Island | 10/20/1977 | See Source »

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